Searching for philosophical truth is a strange thing.

I do not know THE truth - and yet - the search for truth is itself the truth guiding me towards it. So the search for truth is in service of truth, even if the truth is unknown and may perhaps never be known.

Likewise, seeking wisdom is in service of wisdom.

Seeking a good life, is in service of a good life.

We embody what we stretch towards. Rather like a flower, we grow towards the sun. And the flower itself is sunlight, which has taken form.

Perhaps that is why someone said once, "Wisdom does not come from past experience, it is always in the future".

A truth-seeker when being presented with a new thought, has to always say "It sounds plausible, but is it true?". This "never accepting an answer as truth", keeps the truth alive because it keeps the search for truth alive. Perhaps that is why I take offense at religious dogma, because it is "solidified truth", which is someone who has stopped searching. Dogma is a dead thing, and not at all living truth.

So if you think you know the truth, you do not know truth - only dogma - because truth is a living thing. If you do not know the truth, you know the truth. A paradoxical thought which is echoed in perennial wisdom, expressed as "If you know God, you do not know God. If you do not know God, you do know God".

I think everyone serves something. Everyone has a master, of some sort. Some live in service of greed, others live in service of kindness.